Senior Quality Engineer

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY

Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world‑class education to anyone, anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high‑quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre‑K - 12th grade and early college core academic subjects, focusing on math and science. We have over 181 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide, focusing on learners in historically under‑resourced communities.

Our students, teachers, and parents come from all walks of life, and so do we. Our team includes people from academia, traditional/non‑traditional education, big tech companies, and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences because it makes our company stronger. We value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities we serve.

We know that transforming education starts in‑house with learning about ourselves and our colleagues. We strive to be world‑class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.

As a Senior Quality Engineer at Khan Academy for a 24‑month fixed term, you will ensure the quality and reliability of our web‑based products used by schools and learners to improve educational outcomes. You will engage in both manual testing and test automation, developing and maintaining automated tests to detect regressions while also performing comprehensive manual testing of new features. Working within a cross‑functional product development team, you will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and support teams to advocate for exceptional user experiences through all stages of the product design and development lifecycle.

Your strong communication skills, keen eye, creativity, and experience in automated test development at all levels (frontend, backend, white box, and black box) will be key to your success in this role.

• Leveraging your experience with AI tooling to accelerate the discipline of Quality Engineering on your team and across the department.
• In collaboration with your manager, defining your team’s quality strategy (thresholds for good quality, plans for investing in different types of testing, etc), then working with teammates to bring it to fruition.
• Owning manual test plan development and execution for new features on the team.
• Building and maintaining new test automation to fill coverage gaps using insights from manual testing, stakeholder priorities, and industry best practices.
• Collaborating with cross‑functional partners throughout the SDLC, including planning, design reviews, and development discussions to ensure quality is considered from the beginning.
• Using your creativity and extensive knowledge of testing tools and frameworks to find, document, and track bugs.
• Contribute to engineering guilds such as the Quality and Accessibility guilds, and participate in organizational affinity groups to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

• Proven experience in software product testing and test automation with a focus on quality engineering.
• Proficiency in test automation tools like Cypress, with hands‑on experience writing and maintaining automated tests.
• Strong manual testing skills, capable of designing and executing thorough test cases.
• Hands‑on experience using AI development tools to accelerate the QE role in novel ways.
• Experience shaping an engineering team’s quality strategy.
• Expertise in JavaScript/Type Script for test automation and Python for backend testing, with an openness to learning new tools, systems, and languages. Experience in UNIX/Linux environments, and familiarity with using virtual machines or containers.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins.
• Knowledge of accessibility testing, including automated a11y testing, and familiarity with WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills to effectively collaborate and enhance testing processes.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams—product managers,…